[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

'Tis no doubt their superior taste in music and Art for Art's Sake.  :))

I prefer music for the Common Man  :))

Cheers,  Mr Foolishness !


-----Original Message-----
From: barbonestreet at earthlink.net
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:18 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2

   > Dan Spinkl DWSI at aol.com wrote
>
> The most interesting question to me is, why do academics race to 
embrace
> John Cage and all the other 20th century "composers" who focus on 
making noise
> rather than music? Just to capture my share of modern fame, I'm 
currently
> working on a rondo for leaf blowers that I'm certain will be praised 
as "break
> through" by the intellectual set. I just can't imagine why anyone 
would want
> to listen to it.

Perhaps for the exact same reasons the mass audience raced to embrace
Dixieland Jazz with all those early bands focused on making noise like
barnyard animals, braying, cackling and also using train whistles, 
gunshots,
washboards and other noise making apparatus, plus hokum, and ridiculous
costumes. :-) VBG

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


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